PRATTVILLE – A self-professed “Facebook whore” was sentenced to jail time Wednesday morning for using social media to threaten Prattville High School.

Stephen J. Brasher, 24, of the 1400 block of Autauga Heights Road, pleaded guilty to making a terrorist threat when in February he posted on his Facebook page that he was going to “blow up” Prattville High, courthouse records show. A concerned parent sent a screen shot of the page to Prattville police and authorities, including a bomb squad unit, swarmed the school.

Circuit Judge Sibley Reynolds sentenced Brasher to nine months in the Autauga Metro Jail and then 24 months of supervised probation, but not before the judge had strong words for Brasher.

“Mr. Brasher do you have any idea what authorities did after you made this terrorist threat?” Reynolds asked.

“I didn’t know until I got out of jail and it was all over the media,” Brasher answered. “They made a big deal out of it.”

“They made a big deal out of it because it is a big deal,” Reynolds said, raising his voice. “It was a big deal because somebody said they were going to hurt the school children of Autauga County.

“You did it so that everybody would know your name. They know your name now.”

Brasher apologized before sentence was passed down.

“I really messed up,” Brasher said. “I really wasn’t going to hurt anyone. I thought it would be fun. I thought my friends would like it on Facebook. I’m a Facebook whore...”

“What?” Reynolds asked interrupting Brasher. “I’m almost 60 years old and I have no idea what that means.”

“Do you want me to tell you judge?” Brasher continued.

“I can figure it out,” Reynolds shot back.

“I’ve never really lived in the real world,” Brasher continued. “I live on Facebook.”

“That sounds real good,” Reynolds replied. “But we’re here today in the real world. This is where the rubber meets the road.”

Brasher’s attorney D. Wayne Perdue then addressed the court.

“Prison would be devastating to this young man,” Perdue said. “He has no concept.”

“He might live in a fantasy world but he has responsibilities that he can’t shift,” Reynolds told the attorney. “One of those is that he is responsible for his actions.”

District Attorney Randall Houston thought the sentence sent the right message.

“Words have meaning,” Houston said. “You can’t put certain words out there and make threats to places like a school and expect us to tolerate that sort of behavior.”

“The problem with idiots who live in a fantasy world is that the rest of us don’t know they are living in a fantasy world,” he said. “The Prattville Police Department didn’t know he was living in a fantasy world. The Autauga County Board of Education didn’t know he was living in a fantasy world.

“Somebody has to respond when idiots living in a fantasy world do stupid stuff. To us it’s real, and it’s a threat and lives are at stake.”